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17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers

The Burney Newspapers is a comprehensive collection of early English newspapers anywhere in the world, including newspapers, newsbooks, and Acts of Parliament -- from London, the British Isles, and the Colonies.

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New York Online Virtual Electronic Library

Academic One File

This article database includes full-text and abstracts of scholarly, trade, and general-interest periodicals covering topics in the areas of current events, general sciences and technology, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

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Academic Search Premier

A multi-disciplinary database of more than 4,600 magazines and journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full-text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for 8,470 journals.

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Access: The Supplementary Index to Periodicals

Access provides a unique indexing resource for popular periodicals. It indexes approximately eighty-five of the most important popular periodicals. Access also indexes new national publications as they first appear and most major city and regional magazines.

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ACLS Humanities E-Book Project

Provides online access to a fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars.

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African American Experience

Full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of African Americans, as well as the greater Black Diaspora.

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African American Newspapers, 1827-1998

270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience from more than 35 states.

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African American Newspapers: The 19th Century

Searchable full-text of the major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century.

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African American Periodicals, 1825-1995

More than 170 periodicals, published in 26 states, by and about African Americans. Includes academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations' bulletins, and annual reports. 

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All-Russia Census 2002

The latest All-Russia Population Census took place on October 9-16, 2002. Conducted by Goskomstat, the State Committee on Statistics of the Russian Federation, this is first official census of modern Russia.

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ALLDATA Online

Provides comprehensive resource for automotive (1982-to-current) diagnostic and repair information. Online SEARCH feature allows people to locate information quickly.

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Alternative Press Index

The Alternative Press Index indexes more than 300 alternative, radical, and left publications that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political, and social change. 

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Alternative Press Index Archive

An index to alternative press published in the United States and around the world. 

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Amazing Animals of the World

Detailed facts about where each animal lives, what it eats, how it sounds, and why it might be endangered today or in the near future helps students conduct meaningful research and prepare reports.

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America's Historical Imprints

Search full-text early American books, pamphlets, broadsides, government documents and rare printed materials. Combined search of American Broadsides and Ephemera (1760-1900) and Early American Imprints (1639-1819).

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America's Historical Newspapers

Searchable full-text and page images of newspapers from across the country including early newspapers, 1690-1922, African American Newspapers, 1827-1998; Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection, 1799-1971 and Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980.

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America: History and Life with Full Text

Indexes the scholarly literature of the history and culture of Canada and the United States from prehistoric times to the present.

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American Book Prices Current

Contains annual records of books, manuscripts, autographs, maps, and broadsides sold at auction in North America, the United Kingdom, Germany, Holland, Australia, and other locations, for the auction years starting with 1975.

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American Broadsides and Ephemera

Digital collection of broadsides printed between 1820-1900 and ephemera, such as invitations, menus and programs, printed between 1760-1900.

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American Drama

Containing more than 1,100 dramatic works from the early 18th Century up to the beginning of the twentieth, American Drama 1714

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American Film Scripts Online

Current edition includes 823 authorized versions of copyrighted screenplays, formatted in the conventional screenplay format. Also includes a bibliographic and biographic database of directors and writers. Search by character, scene, race, nationality, age, subject, and year of writing, as well as by author and title.

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The American Hebrew and Jewish Messenger (1857-1922)

The American Hebrew was a weekly Jewish newspaper published in New York City. In 1903 it merged with the Jewish Messenger

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American Indian Experience

Full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of American Indians.

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The American Israelite

The longest-running English-language Jewish newspaper still published in the United States. 

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American National Biography

Offers portraits of more than 18,000 men and women — from all eras and walks of life — whose lives have shaped the nation.

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American Periodicals (1740-1940)

APS Online provides searchable full-text and page images from over 1,800 popular magazines, journals and newspapers which began publication between 1740 and 1900 with coverage through 1940. Also contains titles archived at the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), including labor, trade, literary, scientific, and photographic periodicals, as well as other historically-significant titles.

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American State Papers, 1789-1838

U.S. legislative and executive materials originating from 1789 -1838 but not published until the second and third quarters of the 19th century.

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Ancestry Library Edition

Access to more than 7 billion names in more than 4,000 genealogical databases including Census Records, Passenger Lists and UK & Ireland records. Library version of Ancestry.com.

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Anthropological Index Online

Indexes articles in journals received by the British Museum's Department of Ethnography library. Particular emphasis is given to social and cultural anthropology and the archaeology of Eastern and Central Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

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AP Multimedia Archive

Contains the Associated Press's current year's photo report and a selection of images from their vast negative and print library.

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ArchiveGrid (formerly RLG Archival Resources)

Provides researchers with comprehensive access to information about collections of manuscripts and archives.

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Archives USA

Provides information and detailed indexing to manuscript collections from over 5,000 U.S. repositories.

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Art Index Retrospective

Indexes articles in periodicals, yearbooks, and museum publications, 1929-1984.

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ARTbibliographies Modern

Covers twentieth-century art, design, and photography movements.

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ARTstor

ARTstor is a nonprofit resource that provides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, and other fields in the humanities and sciences.

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ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials

ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials provides the full-text access to major religion and theology journals. ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials contains full-text journals in English and other major European languages, and covers all aspects of religion.

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Atlanta Constitution (1868-1945)

The Atlanta Constitution (1868-1945) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.

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Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003)

The Atlanta Daily World had the first black White House correspondent and was the first black daily in the nation in the 20th century

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AudioBookCloud

Listen online to audio books in many different categories: fiction, non-fiction, classics and even Spanish language audio books! There are 1,000 books in the collection. These books are always available, never on hold, and no need to download.

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Auto/Biography

Auto/Biography is an international and interdisciplinary journal addressing theoretical, epistemological, and empirical issues relating to autobiographical and biographical research.

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Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

Indexes articles on architecture in its broadest sense, including archaeology, decorative arts, interior design, furniture, landscape architecture, and city planning from 1930s to present.

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Berg Fashion Library

Berg Fashion Library provides access to interdisciplinary and integrated text, image, and journal content on world dress and fashion.

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Bibliography of American Literature

Describes the works of America's most important literary writers from the time of the Revolution to 1930

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Bibliography of Native North Americans

Citations to literature about native peoples of North America, including Aleuts; Eskimos or Inuit of Greenland, northern Canada, Alaska, and eastern Siberia; and other native peoples of Canada, the United States, and Mexico north of the northern boundary of Mesoamerica.

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Bibliography of the Hebrew Book

Complete bibliography of Hebrew, Yiddish, and Ladino printed books, 1469-1960.

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Biography and Genealogy Master Index

Indexes biographical listings in dictionaries and encyclopedias covering millions individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.

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Biography in Context

Provides biographical information on more than 335,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines.

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Biography Index

Indexes English-language biographical material appearing in books, magazines, and selected newspapers.

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Black Studies Center

This fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies combines: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index of Black Periodicals (IIBP), and The Chicago Defender. Includes scholarly essays, recent periodicals, and historical newspaper articles.

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Book Review Digest Retrospective, 1903-1982

Provides excerpts from and citations to reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction in major subject areas.

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Book Review Index Online

Book Review Index Online is a comprehensive source for book reviews from 1965 to the present and covers review published in nearly 500 periodicals and newspapers.

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Bookflix

BookFlix pairs classic fictional video storybooks from Weston Woods with nonfiction eBooks from Scholastic. (PreK - 3)

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Books in Print

A bibliographic database of over 7.5 million U.S. book, audio book, and video titles, as well as 12 million international titles, currently in print and information on forthcoming and out-of-print books. Also offers: reviews; tables of contents; cover images; author biographies; awards information; and annotations.

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Boston Globe (1872-1981)

The Boston Globe, considered the mainstay of Boston and New England, is a unique full-image archive offering complete coverage from 1872-1981.

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Boston Globe (1997-present)

 Full text of the Boston Globe through ProQuest's Newspaper Premier database, 1997-present.

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BrainPOP

Watch fun animated online movies that help with school assignments. Hundreds of BrainPOP videos explain a wide variety of concepts in Math, Science, Social Studies, English, Art & Music, Health and Technology.

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British Newspapers 1600-1900

Provides researchers with the most comprehensive collection of national and regional newspapers of Victorian Britain available.

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New York Online Virtual Electronic Library

Business & Company Resource Center

Includes company profiles,executives, mergers & acquisitions,ticker symbols, news & magazine articles, company histories and chronologies, financials, balance sheets, financial ratios, rankings, suits & claims (for civil claims suits in the area of Human Resources only), products & brands, industry overviews and associations.

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Business Insights: Essentials

Business Insights provides in depth coverage of businesses, including company profiles, industry profiles, products and brands, financial reports, company rankings, histories and full text periodical articles. Formerly known as Business & Company Resource Center.

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Business Monitor Online

Market research reports on 175 global markets and Industry reports on 14 major industry sectors. Multinational company profiles, macroeconomic data, country risk analysis, country forecasts, and country updates.

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Business Source Premier EBSCO

Full text for over 2,470 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more

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Cairn.Info

Cairn.info is an online collection of French language periodicals in the social sciences and humanities disciplines.

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Career Cruising

Privacy Policy: This database collects personal information from users as part of its service. This information is stored by the vendor that creates the database and is subject to that vendor's private policy. We encourage you to read that vendor's private policy. The information you enter into this database is not stored by The New York Public Library. Career Cruising is a comprehensive bilingual (English and Spanish) interactive multimedia source which features profiles and information on hundreds of occupations, 2 and 4 year college and universities, and financial aid, including scholarship opportunities.

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Career Insider (Vault)

Premier career resource. Find career guides, industry guides, company and employer profiles, topics guides and more. Industry overviews bring you inside 40 top industries, from investment management to manufacturing. Find details on career path, salary ranges, industry outlook and more.

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CCH Omnitax Library

Includes all the information from more than a dozen of its well-known tax resources. Foremost are the Standard Federal Tax Reporter, the Estate and Gift Tax Reporter, the Internal Revenue Manual and the New York Tax Reporter. But the Library also includes the Tax Cases, including memoranda, revenue rulings, Treasury decisions, comprehensive presentations of the tax treaties and a range of the IRS Publications. There are also several current awareness news sources and tax guides.

 

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Chicago Defender (1910-1975)

Searchable full-text and page images from The Chicago Defender archive.

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Chicago Tribune (1849-1989)

Searchable full-text and page images from the Chicago Tribune archive.

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Chicago Tribune (1989-present)

Full text of the Chicago Tribune, 1989-present. 

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Chinese E-Journal Collection (Qikan)

Provides access to full text of 150 popular journals in Chinese language.

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Chinese Pamphlets (1947-1954)

Chinese pamphlets, picture books and other propaganda issued during the early period of the People's Republic of China.

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Christian Science Monitor (September, 1988-present)

A major daily newspaper covering national and international news. Published in the US and noted for unbiased, concise and comprehensive coverage.

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Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education Online is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. Published every weekday.

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CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)

A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs.

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Classic Mexican Cinema Online

This resource, the first online collection from Latin America published by Brill, covers the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, from the 1930s to 1960. It features popular film periodicals, such as Cinema Reporter and Cinema Mundial, together with lobby cards and the personal scrap book of filmmaker Fernando de Fuentes.

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Columbia Gazetteer of the World

A unique world encyclopedia of geographical places and features with over 170,000 entries.

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Columbia Granger's World of Poetry

This premiere poetry on-line resource contains 250,000 full text poems and 450,000 citations, as well as poetry commentary, poets' biographies, and literary glossary terms.

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Compendex Historical Archive

Information from engineering and technological literature. Locate articles in all fields of engineering. Journal articles, technical reports, monographs, and conference proceedings are included. Backfiles available from 1884-1969.

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Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980

A digital reproduction of the key publications of the United States Congress, the Congressional Serial Set documents the official activities of the House and the Senate, including the journals, reports and documents. IN PROGRESS.

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Congressional Universe

Provides comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information from Congressional Information Service, Inc.

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Contemporary Authors

Biographical coverage of more than 100,000 writers, entries on contemporary authors.

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Credo Reference

Provides full-text online versions of hundreds of top quality reference books in all major subjects from art to medicine, psychology to history, and technology to literature. Includes bilingual and biographical dictionaries.

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Current Biography Illustrated

Full text of Current Biography magazine. 

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D&B Million Dollar Directory

Newly expanded directory provides information on 14 million companies in the U.S. Search by company on first screen, or use Advanced Search to select criteria to build a list of companies by location, industry, SIC or NAICs code, size, sales, etc. See the Zip code listings for all 5 boroughs.

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Design and Applied Arts Index

International index to design and craft journals.

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Dictionary of Irish Biography

The Dictionary of Irish Biography, is a collaborative project with over 9,000 signed biographical articles, between Cambridge University Press and the Royal Irish Academy.

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Dictionary of Literary Biography

Features information on literary figures from all time periods and all genres. This is available in the Literature Resource Center.

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Digital Microfilm

The digital microfilm of the following newspapers: American Banker (2008-April, 2010), Barron's (2008-March, 2010), Boston Globe (2008- April, 2010), Chicago Tribune (2008-May, 2010), Detroit News (2009-April, 2010), New York Times -Late Edition, East Coast (2008-April, 2010), San Francisco Chronicle (2008-April 2010), Saint Louis Post-Dispatch (2008-April, 2010), USA Today (2009-Febrary, 2010), Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition (2008-April, 2010), Washington Post - Final Edition (2008-May, 2010).

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Digitalia

Digitalia is a Hispanic Database of ebooks and ejournals where you will find thousands of ebooks from the most renowned Spanish and Latinamerican Publishing Houses, as well as relevant journals that cover all topics of interest.

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Directories in Print

See Gale Directory Library for access to Directories in Print.

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Directory of American Firms Operating in Foreign Countries

Contains listings for American companies that have a substantial investment in overseas operations-wholly or partially owned subsidiary, affiliate or branch.

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Directory of Foreign Firms Operating in the United States

Foreign companies listed have a substantial investment in American operations-wholly or partially owned subsidiary, affiliate or branch.

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Directory of Professional Genealogists

Contains the 1999-2000 Directory of Professional Genealogists. Also find links to other Professional Genealogical organizations under Resources.

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Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers

See Gale Directory Library for access to Gale Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers.

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Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800)

Provides full text, digital images of books, pamphlets, broadsides and periodicals published in America from 1639-1800.

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Early American Imprints, Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)

Provides full-text, digital images of books, pamphlets, broadsides, state papers and government publications published in America from 1801-1819.

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Early English Books Online (EEBO)

Provides full text, digital images of every book printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and every book in the English language printed abroad, from 1475 to 1700.

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EBSCO Primary Search

Provides full text for over 50 magazines and over 100 pamphlets, designed for the elementary school student. The content of EBSCO Animals is also included.

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EBSCOHost

Provides access to over 30 databases with citations, abstracts and selected full-text. Includes Academic Search Premier, Business Source Complete and other subject-specific resources. Specific databases available through EBSCOhost are listed at the EBSCOhost site and in this directory.

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EconLit

Indexes and abstracts international literature on economics. Also includes the full-text for more than 480 journals.

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The Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2009

Complete archive of the Economist weekly newsmagazine. 

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Economist Intelligence Unit

Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) includes Country Reports and Country Profile guides.

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Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)

Provides full text, digital images of books, pamphlets, broadsides and other materials published in the United Kingdom between 1701-1800. 

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Eighteenth Century Journals II

Provides full-text, digital images from the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center collection of 17th and 18th century newspapers and periodicals. Topics covered include the writings of Sir Isaac Newton, the French Revolution, reviews of literature and fashion throughout Europe, political debates, and coffee house gossip and discussion.

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Electronic Enlightenment

Electronic Enlightenment is a database which provides unrivalled online access to 18th-century primary sources that can be searched or browsed as a complete collection.

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eMarketer

Market research information related to e-business, online marketing and emerging technologies. eMarketer aggregates and analyzes e-business research from over 1,700 sources and brings it together in one place. Research is presented in analyst reports and an "eStat Database" feature which is a comprehensive compilation of up-to-date e-business and online marketing statistics.

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Emerging Markets - Internet Securities

Full-text articles, news, company, industry and market information for emerging market countries around the world.

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Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos

La Enciclopedia estudiantil hallazgos en línea es una enciclopedia de conocimientos generales. Contiene información sobre gente, lugares, objetos, acontecimientos e ideas. Aprovecha esta enciclopedia para investigar y divertirte.
 

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Encyclopedia Americana

The online version of encyclopedia with an added news database.

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Encyclopedia Judaica

Full-text searchable database of the 22 volumes.

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Encyclopedia of American Religions

See Gale Directory of Databases for access to the Encyclopedia of American Religions.

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Encyclopedia of Governmental Advisory Organizations

A directory of executive advisory bodies in the United States. See Gale Directory Librayr for access to the Encyclopedia of Governmental Advisory Organizations.

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Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive

Full text of entertainment industry trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting, and theater. Titles include Variety (1905-2000), Billboard (1894-2000), Broadcasting (1931-2000), Melody Maker (1926-2000) and more. 

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ERIC (CSA)

The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. In addition, ERIC provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.

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ERIC (EBSCO)

U.S. Department of Education's Educational Resource Information Center database. Citations and abstracts from educational and education-related journals.

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ERIC Document Reproduction Service

From the U.S. Department of Education, ready access to documents in the education field.

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Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection, 1799-1971

More than 130 searchable newspapers from 25 states in 10 languages from the former Balch Institute of Ethnic Studies. Emphasis on Americans of Czech, French, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Jewish, and Slavic descent.

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Ethnic NewsWatch

Collection of ethnic, minority, and native newspapers, magazines, and journals published in America.

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Euromonitor (Now Passport)

Market intelligence on industries, countries and consumers. Includes integrated access to statistics, market analysis, and commentary on emerging trends. Please Note: conditions of access to this service: Euromonitor is provided at NYPL for personal research or private study only, and cannot be sold or re-distributed to third parties. Library users may browse, search the service and display Intelligence on screen, and may print out no more than up twenty pages or equivalent of information per session. Direct downloading by library users is not permitted.

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Everyday Life and Women in America, c1800-1920

This digital collection provides access to rare primary source material on American social, cultural, and popular history from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History, Duke University and The New York Public Library.

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Factiva (formerly Dow Jones Interactive)

Includes content from more than 20,000 news sources, including newspapers, TV transcripts, newswires, and business magazines.

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FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus

Formerly known as Film/TV Documentation Collections, FIAF Index to Film Periodicals Plus is a bibliographical resource offering coverage of hundreds of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals right up to the present day. Many of these key titles are available here in full text including complete runs. It is an essential reference work for any film researcher.

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Fiction Connection

Use this readers advisory tool to discover titles similar to books you already enjoy.

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Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text

Film & Television Literature Index is the definitive index to film and television literature. It is a bibliographic database that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications, and selected coverage of 300 more.

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Film Indexes Online

Includes Film Index International (British Film Institute) and the AFI Catalog (American Film Institute), covering all eras of filmmaking from the early silents to recent box-office hits.

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First Research

Industry profiles which include industry overview, recent developments, business challenges, trends and opportunities, executive insight, call preparation questions, financial information, industry ratio's, industry forecast and rating, web links and acronyms. Print, or save information.

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Foundation Directory Online Professional

Foundation Directory Online was developed by the Foundation Center, a nonprofit organization founded over 50 years ago to open up U.S. foundations to public view.

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Foundation Grants to Individuals Online

Foundation Grants to Individuals Online is an online database of nearly 10,000 foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers.

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FreedomFlix

Dynamic e-books from Scholastic brings history to life by capturing the dramatic and defining moments in American history. 

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Freegal Music

Freegal is downloadable music service which provides access to the catalog of artists in Sony Music Entertainment. Library cardholders can download three songs a week with their barcode and pin number. Freegal works with any MP3 device, including iPods. The New York Public Library's subscription to Freegal Music is generously supported by a grant from Community Funds, Inc. -- the Robert R. Asiel Memorial Fund.

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Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia EBSCO[grades 5-8]

Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.

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Gale Directory Library

Search across a range of directories. Includes: Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers; Encyclopedia of American Religions; Encyclopedia of Associations - International Organizations; Encyclopedia of Associations - National Organizations of the U.S.; Encyclopedia of Associations - Regional, State and Local Organizations of the U.S.; Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources; Encyclopedia of Governmental Advisory Organizations; Gale Directory of Databases; Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media; Government Research Directory; Information Industry Directory;International Research Centers Directory; Law and Legal Information Directory; Market Share Reporter; National Faculty Directory; Publishers Directory; Research Centers Directory; Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies.

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Gale Directory of Databases

See Gale Directory Library for access to Gale Directory of Databases

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Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media

See Gale Directory Library for access to Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media.

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Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL)

Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) is an online library of reference titles for multi-disciplinary research. 

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New York Online Virtual Electronic Library

General One File

This general periodical database contains over 12,000 periodicals, newspapers, reference books and multimedia sources, over half of which are full text. The backfile extends nearly 30 years. Subjects include humanities, education, environmental issues, technology, health care, politics and more.

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Government Research Centers Directory

See "Gale Directory Library" for access to this title. Use Advanced Search. 

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GreenFILE

Abstracts and indexes articles on the environment with information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling.

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Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia

The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia is based on the text of the Academic American Encyclopedia.

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Grolier Online

Includes access to the Encyclopedia Americana, New Book of Knowledge and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia as well as Roget's II: The New Thesaurus and the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.

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Guardian and Observer (1791-2003)

The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.

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Guide to Reference

Guide to Reference is a selective guide to the best reference sources, organized by academic discipline. Users can choose to set up a profile to create and save lists and notes to use in their reference and research work.

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HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)

Indexes books, articles, reviews, bibliographies, and literary works appearing in scholarly journals covering Latin America, the Caribbean, and Hispanic America.

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HarpWeek

The online version of Harper's Weekly (1857-1912), the leading American illustrated magazine of its day, covering political, military, social, and cultural stories. HarpWeek may be browsed by date or literary genre; the full text is searchable by keywords.

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Hartford Courant (1764-1987)

Searchable full-text and page images from the archive of the Hartford Courant.

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Health Reference Center Academic

Includes over 2800 journals and magazines, many of which are full text. It contains nursing and allied health journals, other medical journals, newsletters and consumer health magazines.

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Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980

This collection represents the single largest compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Historical Abstracts

Abstracts of journal articles on world history since 1450, excluding U.S. and Canadian history, which is covered by America: History and Life.

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Historical Statistics of the United States

This compendium of statistics provides quantitative, historical data about American social, economic and political conditions and development. The data is provided in both PDF and Excel formats. This is the online version of the 2006 print edition.

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Hoover's

Provides company and industry information on 43,000 private and public companies, and 600 industries.

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House of Commons Parliamentary Papers

Between 1715 and 2000, around 9.5 million pages for over 184,000 parliamentary papers were published. Since 2001, the number of papers has grown by approximately 4,000 for each parliamentary session. HCPP delivers searchable full text for each paper, along with a detailed subject index.

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Humanities International Complete

This database includes all data from Humanities International Index™ (more than 2,200 journals and 2.8 million records) plus unique full-text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for nearly 1,200 journals.

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IBISWorld

IBISWorld is the largest collection of industry and market research including specialized industries for small business research. The database producer has asked that the library make efforts to prevent systematic downloading of multiple reports. We request that library users not download more than 2 to 5 reports in one search session. Thank you for your cooperation!

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Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003

A unique visual archive of 19th century Victorian Britain, including illustrations and photographs of events ranging from the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the Boer war. 

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Index to Jewish Periodicals

Index to Jewish Periodicals is the definitive index on Jewish history, activity and thought. This database provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs.

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Index to Nineteenth-Century American Art Periodicals

Indexes periodical issues' entire contents: articles, art notes, illustrations, stories, poems, and advertisements. NOTE: This database is currently experiencing intermittent service outages.

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Infoshare Online

Provides a wide range of data on the neighborhoods of New York City -- population, immigration, land use, public assistance, birth, death, hospitalization and much else.

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Infotrac Newstand

Searchable full-text of 300 plus newspapers, both national and international.

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Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees: The West’s Response to Jewish Emigration

Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees: The West’s Response to Jewish Emigration

contains primary source correspondence, memoranda, reports and government documents including meeting records, country files, subject files, and administration files.

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International Bibliography of Book Reviews

An interdisciplinary index to book reviews published in scholarly journals, primarily in the social sciences and the humanities, including many European journals.

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International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text

Contains all of the content available in International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance as well as full text for 100 titles, including Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, Theater, and more.

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International Index for the Performing Arts Full Text (IIPA)

IIPA covers the subjects of dance, film, television, drama, recorded sound,theater, stagecraft, musical theater, broadcast arts, circus performance, comedy, storytelling, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic and more. Contains over 172,013 records providing current and retrospective coverage, with citations dating back to 1864.

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International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text

Includes current and retrospective citations and abstracts from scholarly journals and newsletters from the U.S., Africa and the Caribbean--and full-text coverage of core Black Studies periodicals.

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International Index to Film Periodicals

Produced by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) as part of the International Film Archive database, this cumulative index contains almost 230,000 citations to articles from academic and popular film journals. Full bibliographic descriptions and comprehensive subject headings are provided.

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International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text

Indexes over 350 and provides full text for nearly 100 international music periodicals from more than twenty countries, with over 50 of the publications indexed exclusively in IIMP. IIMP is both current and retrospective with over 30,000 records dating from 1996 to the present and other records dating as far back as 1874.

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Investext Plus

Search investment analyst's reports on companies & industries from over 500 brokers in North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. Search by company, industry, or keyword.

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JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association)

The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) is a full-text medical journal. This subscription Includes citations and abstracts of JAMA and the Archives journals from 1998 to present.

 

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Jerusalem Post

The world's top English-language daily newspaper covering Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World.

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The Jewish Exponent

The Jewish Exponent has carried news of developments in Israel, efforts to rescue Jews the world over from repressive regimes, and the ever-expanding role of Jews in American public life. 

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Jewish Life in America c.1654-1954

A history of Jewish communities in America through essays, interactive maps, the American Jewish Year Book, and biographies.

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JSTOR

A searchable, digitized archive -- from the first date of publication to the last three to five years -- of major scholarly journals in many academic fields.

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Kids Search

An interface that is designed especially for grades K-8. Kids Search makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. The content from EBSCO Animals is included. Results can be easily sorted by magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.

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Kroll Bond Ratings

As of August 2010, following the purchase of LACE Financial, Kroll Bond Ratings is recognized by the SEC as a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization in competition with Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch.

Because of the relation to LACE, the KBR service includes ratings of more than 15000 bank holding companies, commercial and savings banks, savings and loans and credit unions, as well as corporate and sovereign bonds.

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La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre

Spanish-language encyclopedia written from the Latin American perspective provides coverage of all curriculum-aligned topics so English Language Learners can conduct authentic research in their native language.

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Lands & Peoples

articles, almanacs, graphics and charts to help students explore the differences in the world’s lands and peoples.

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Latin American Newspapers

This groundbreaking online collection provides 33 fully searchable Latin American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Latin American Newstand

ProQuest Latin American Newsstand provides full-text information in Spanish and Portuguese from 41 newspapers from Puerto Rico and 11 Latin American countries, including Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. The complete articles are available in ASCII format.

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Latino American Experience

Focused on the history and culture of Latinos from the pre-Columbian Indigenous civilizations of the Americas to the present, this database features content from over 150 titles, an image file, timelines, primary and landmark documents.

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LearningExpressLibrary

Test preparation materials and interactive practice exams that will help people improve their scores on academic, civil service, military, and professional licensing and certification exams.

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Left Index

Topics covered include politics, economics, the labor movement, ecology and environment, women's studies, race and ethnicity, social and cultural theory, sociology, art and aesthetics, philosophy, history, education, law, and globalization.

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Lexis Nexis Digital Congressional Hearings Digital Collection

Provides access to every published and unpublished hearings from 1824 to the present.

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LGBT Life with Full Text

LGBT Life provides complete indexing and abstracting of content related to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender studies in over 230 journals, magazines, and newspapers. LGBT Life also provides full text from a number of important sources including monographs and publications such as The Advocate, New York Blade, and Out.

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Library Literature and Information Science Full Text

Provides indexing and abstracting of nearly 400 journals, including key library and information science periodicals, and full-text coverage of over 160 journals.

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Literary Manuscripts

Literary Manuscripts is drawn from the nineteenth century holdings of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.

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Literature Criticism Online

Search a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres through a combined or individual search of a set of 10 literary series from Gale.

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Literature Online

A searchable library of works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies, and key secondary sources.

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Literature Resource Center

Features information on literary figures from all time periods in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism.

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Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005)

First hand coverage of the grass-roots struggle against the racially restrictive housing covenants of the 1940s. Considered to be the major newspaper of the Black community in Los Angeles during the 20th century. The oldest and largest black newspaper in the western United States and the largest African-American owned newspaper in the U.S.

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Los Angeles Times

 Full text coverage of the Los Angeles Times, from December 4th, 1996-present. 

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Los Angeles Times (1881-1988)

Searchable full-text and page images from the Los Angeles Times archive.

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lynda.com

An online learning platform that helps anyone learn software, design, and business skills.

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Mango Languages

Learn a new language with this interactive database that provides step by step lesson plans for 38 different languages. This database features ESL lessons for Arabic, Cantonese, Mandarin, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese speakers. A text translator is provided. Download the mobile app.

*First time users must create a profile in order to access the resource.

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Market Research Monitor (Euromonitor International)

This database interface integrates the content of Market Research Monitor and World Lifestyles. Passport interface includes a 7 year archive of more than 850 consumer and retail reports plus 600 major market profiles. Access to up-to-date global consumer market research, trends, market background, market forecasts, analysis and market size data, forecasts, and market shares. International and U.S. coverage.

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Market Research.com Academic

Full-text service of market research reports on many topics. Includes more than 40,000 market intelligence publications from 350 publishers worldwide.

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Marquis Who's Who on the Web

Basic biographical information on over 1 million of the most accomplished individuals worldwide from all fields of endeavor.

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MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)

Contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. 

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MEDLINE

MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.

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Mergent \ Moody's Digitized Manuals

Dating back to 1909, the Manual collection encompasses year by year company information including financials, a detailed textual business and history description, listings of officers and directors, stock and dividend information, listings of subsidiaries and more. 

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Mergent Horizon

Mergent Horizon is an online research application that includes the most comprehensive database of US-traded companies organized by the goods and services from which they derive their revenues as well as their key business relationships. 

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MergentOnline

Information on more than 21,000 US and international companies, including 10,000 NYSE, AMEX and Nasdaq exchange companies. All SEC (EDGAR) filings and domestic and international annual reports are included.

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Middle Search Plus

Provides full text access to magazines covering general topics for middle and junior high school students.

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MLA Directory of Periodicals

The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.

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MLA International Bibliography

Indexes scholarship in world literature, including poetry, fiction, drama, film, linguistics, and folklore.

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Morningstar Investment Research Center

Access Morningstar financial reports, screening, analyst reports and porfolio screening. Use the Help & Education link to access information about this database and online course modules on investing.

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Music Index Online

The Music Index Online edition features over 1.4 million records. The searchable database is updated quarterly with about 100,000 new records added annually.

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Nation Archive (1865-present)

The archive contains PDF page images and searchable text for all issues of The Nation published from 1865 to the present.

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National Newspaper Index (1977-present)

Indexing of America's top newspapers in one search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, USA Today and The Washington Post.

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National Newspapers Premier (ProQuest)

Searchable full text from the 1980's to the present of over 25 local, regional and national newspapers including the the New York Daily News, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and The Christian Science Monitor. 

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Naturalization Index to New York Petitions, 1792-1989

Access through Ancestry Library Edition - Search under U.S. Immigration Collection. This database contains an index to the petitions for naturalization filed in various federal, state and local courts in New York City.

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Naturalization Petition Index at the New York County Supreme Court, 1907-1924

Access through Ancestry Library Edition - Search under U.S. Immigration Collection.

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Nature (1869-present)

Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology. Nature also provides news and interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public.

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New Book of Knowledge

An online version of the print encyclopedia for children plus NBK News, weekly current events stories plus special features geared especially for young students.

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The New Book of Popular Science

Covers the vast worlds of science, technology, and medicine with curriculum-aligned articles and a rich array of photos, maps, and technical illustrations that help clarify scientific processes.

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New Book of Popular Science (for students)

A science encyclopedia with over 400 articles geared to student readers.

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New England Journal of Medicine

Full text issues in biomedical science and clinical practice from 1990-present.

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New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993)

Searchable full-text and page images of the leading Black newspaper of the 20th century.

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New York Daily News (1997 - present)

Full text of the New York Daily News, from October 14th, 1997-present. 

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New York Death Notices, 1801-1890

Access through Ancestry Library Edition - Search under the Birth, Marriage & Death category - New York Death Newspaper Extracts, 1801-1890. Digitized version of Gertrude A. Barber's extracts of deaths recorded in the "Brooklyn Eagle" (1841-1890) and the "New York Evening Post" (1801-1890).

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New York Emigrant Savings Bank, 1850-1883

Access through Ancestry Library Edition - Search under U.S. Immigration Collection. The Emigrant Savings Bank was established in 1850 by members of the Irish Emigrant Society. The bank kept records on depositors and borrowers that provide the name of the depositor, account date, and year and place of birth, if given.

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New York Herald (1840-1865)

Searchable full-text and page images from the New York Herald, 1840-1865, through the ProQuest Civil War Era database.

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New York Marriage Newspaper Extracts, 1801-1880

Access through Ancestry Library Edition - Search under the Birth, Marriage & Death category. Digitized version of Gertrude A. Barber's extracts of marriages recorded in the "Brooklyn Eagle" (1841-1880) and the "New York Evening Post" (1801-1837).

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New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957

Access through Ancestry Library Edition - Search under U.S. Immigration Collection. Index to the passenger lists of ships arriving from foreign ports at the port of New York from 1820-1957. In addition, the names found in the index are linked to actual images of the passenger manifests.

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New York Review of Books (NYRB)

The online archive of the biweekly book review and journal featuring articles on literature, culture and current affairs.

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New York State Newspapers

A collection of major New York State newspapers, available in full-text.

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New York Times (1851-2009) w/ Index

Searchable full-text and page images from The New York Times archive with the option to search by subject headings (index covers 1851-1993).

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New York Times (1980-present)

Full-text articles from The New York Times.

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New York Tribune / Herald Tribune (1841-1962)

Full text and full page and article images of The New York Tribune and its successor The Herald Tribune.

 

 

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Newsday (1940-1984)

Historical coverage from Newsday, the Long Island and New York City News Source.

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Newsletters in Print

A directory of newsletters in the United States, covering many subjects. See Gale Directory Library for access to Newsletters in Print.

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Newspaper Source (EBSCO)

Searchable full text to over 170 U.S. newspapers and 20 international newspapers. Also includes newswires and TV and radio news transcripts.

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Nueva enciclopedia Cumbre en linea

Una enciclopedia en el idioma español que contiene aproximadamente quince mil artículos con más de seis mil photos.

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Nursing and Allied Health Collection

This database was previously offered through NOVEL, but is no longer available as a free resource.

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OCLC FirstSearch

Provides access to a wide variety of articles in a number of databases as well as a union catalog of books in libraries all over the world

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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

Opposing Viewpoints contains nearly 5,000 current social topics in the forms of primary source documents, statistics, websites and multimedia.

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Oxford Art Online

Oxford Art Online offers users the ability to access the vast content of Grove Art Online, The  Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Dictionary of Art Terms all in one interface.

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Oxford Bibliographies Online

 Oxford Bibliographies Online is a library of discipline-based subject modules designed to help researchers find reliable sources of information for their research.

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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Contains over 50,000 biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of the British past, from the earliest times through the most recent years.

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Oxford English Dictionary (OED)

The online version of the Oxford English Dictionary contains all work to date of the third edition, reflecting daily updates and revisions. Also includes the full-text of the second edition, and a historical thesaurus. 

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Oxford Music Online

A gateway offering users the ability to access and cross-search multiple music reference resources in one location. Contains the Grove Music Online, as well as The Oxford Dictionary of Music, and The Oxford Companion to Music.

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Oxford Reference Online

Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource.

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Oxford Scholarly Editions Online

Oxford Scholarly Editions Online is a major new publishing initiative from Oxford University Press. Find the complete text of more than 170 scholarly editions of material written between 1485 and 1660, constituting the cornerstone of research in the fields of English Literature, as well as Philosophy, History, and Religion.

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Oxford Scholarship Online

Provides access to the full text of over 8,000 Oxford academic monographs in 20 subject areas covering the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law.

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P4A Antiques Reference Database

Information in the database is drawn from about fifty leading regional auction houses located throughout the United States, plus other selected specialist auctions.

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Panjiva

Panjiva is an online resource for sourcing executives to gain knowledge about suppliers and manufacturers around the world. *This resources requires that users login.

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Periodicals Archive Online

An interdisciplinary digital archive of hundreds of full text journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

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Periodicals Index Online

An interdisciplinary and international index to the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Over 6,000 journals are included.

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Philosopher's Index

Indexes and abstracts the literature on epistemology, ethics, logic, metaphysics, law, religion and science from periodicals, monographs, and other documents.

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Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)

One of the most nationally circulated Black newspapers, the Courier reached its peak in the 1930s. A conservative voice in the African-American community, the Courier challenged the misrepresentation of African-Americans in the national media and advocated social reforms to advance the cause of civil rights.

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Plunkett Research Online

Industry trends, market research and trends organized in 32 industry research centers. Find statistics, industry data, company contacts, organizations, market trends and more. Also, see the new research center for job seekers. ** Please remember to click to LOG OUT when done, don't just switch to another database. The library has a limited number of licenses for this database and if you do not log out other library users will not be able to access.

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PressDisplay

Provides access to current newspapers from around the world in full-color, full-page format.  Includes over 1,000 U.S. and international titles.

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Project Muse

Provides full-text access to over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly journals and top quality book-length scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.

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Promt

Magazine and newspaper index for companies and industries focusing on markets and products around the world.

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ProQuest Civil War Era (1840-1865)

Combines complete runs of eight newspaper titles, covering 1840-1865, as well as nearly 2,000 pamphlets covering a vast range of Civil War Era research topics.

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ProQuest Congressional Publications (1789 - present)

Full text and indexing of historic and current congressional publications: finding aids, a bill tracking service, full text of public laws and other research materials. Since Congress is interested in all public policy, social, and economic issues, the database is an effective source for general research in many academic disciplines, in addition to research related to specific legislative proposals and laws.

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Proquest Dissertations and Theses

Includes citations for dissertations from 1861 to those accepted as recently as last semester. Abstracts from 1980 - present.

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ProQuest Historical African American Newspapers

Simultaneous search of the Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), Chicago Defender (1910-1975), Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), and the Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002).

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ProQuest Historical Database

Searchable full-text and page images of all ProQuest Historical databases, which includes major U.S. newspapers from across the country and thousands of magazine articles published from 1740 to 1940.

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ProQuest Historical Jewish Newspapers

 Simultaneous search of the The American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger (1857-1922), The American Israelite (1854-2000), The Jerusalem Post (1932-1988), the Jewish Advocate (1905-1990) and The Jewish Exponent (1887-1990).

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ProQuest Research Library

Provides articles from periodicals covering arts, business, children, education, health, humanities, law, multicultural studies, sciences, social sciences, and general interest. Full text is available for nearly two-thirds of its titles.

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PsycARTICLES

From the American Psychological Association (APA), a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology.

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PsycINFO

Indexes literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work.

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Publishers Directory

A directory of United States and Canadian publishers. See Gale Directory Library for access to Publishers Directory.

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Readers' Guide Abstracts

Contains comprehensive indexing and abstracting for more than 300 of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada.

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Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-1982)

Indexes the most popular, general-interest periodicals published in the United States from 1890 to 1982.

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Reference USA

Provides addresses, sales information, executives, for over 11 million U.S.

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Regional Business News (formerly Business News Wire)

Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Business News Wire is now called "Regional Business News"

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Regional One Source

Statistical reference source provides access to U.S. data from 29 top-level subjects to 39,000 data items.

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Research Centers Directory

A directory of reseach centers, covering all subjects and disciplines.

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Resources for Children with Special Needs

Provides information about programs and services for children birth to 21 with disabilities and other special needs in the NEW YORK CITY METROPOLITAN AREA. It includes national organizations and residential programs such as camps and schools that serve children from New York City

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RILM: Abstracts of Music Literature

The online version of the Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (1969-present) is a continuously updated bibliography of music literature providing broad international coverage including records in over 202 languages from 3,700 journals.

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RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals: 1800-1950

An index of specialized music journals, daily newspapers, articles in literary periodicals, theatrical journals and magazines, as well as engravings and lithographs in the illustrated press.

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Russian National Bibliography

Bibliographic access to books, newspapers, journals, book criticism and reviews, the arts, sheet music, dissertations and maps.

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San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922)

The San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.

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Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970

Access to large-scale maps for towns and cities in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

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Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience

This resource provides a core collection of primary and secondary resources in Black Studies, including full-text articles, book chapters, dissertations, reference materials, timelines, images and multimedia.

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Science Direct

ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information. Apart from online eBooks, Reference Works, Handbooks and Book Series ScienceDirect offers a rich journal collection of over 2,500 titles. A large backfile of pre-1995 articles extends the reach of the database back to the first issues of many journals.

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Science Magazine

International weekly science journal, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

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The Scientist

The Scientist reports on and analyzes the issues and events that impact the world of life scientists. Articles cover a variety of topics such as vaccines on trial, reducing malaria to its constituent parts, and survival in the microfluidic market.

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Searchasaurus [grades 1-3]

Full-text articles from over 80 magazines and pamphlets appropriate for children in grades 1-3. Also includes the content from EBSCO Animals.

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SimplyMap

Simply Map includes thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables.

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Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive

A historical archive that embraces the scholarly study of slavery in a comprehensive, conceptual and global way.

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Slavery and Manumission Manuscripts of Timbuktu

The Center for Research Libraries and the Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP) present a collection of 19th century manuscripts relating to slavery and manumission in Timbuktu.

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Small Business Resource Center

Covers major areas of starting and operating a business. Includes sample business plans, directories, including the Encylopedia of Business Information Sources, Encyclopedia of Management and Small Business Management, and more.

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Social Security Death Index

A national index to deceased persons possessing social security numbers and whose deaths were reported to the Social Security Administration. The index includes Birth date, Death date and Last residence. Access via Ancestry Library Edition. 

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Social Services Abstracts

Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, social welfare and community development.

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SOCIndex

SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. Its extensive scope and content provide users with a wealth of extremely useful information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study. The database features more than 1,986,000 records with subject headings from a 19,600+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers.

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Sociological Abstracts

Indexes and abstracts literature in theoretical and applied sociology, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

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Something About the Author

Biographical profiles of children's authors and artists. 

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SourceOECD

SourceOECD is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. This library comprises 20 book collections by theme, containing all of the OECD monographs and reports, 24 periodicals, a reference title, and the OECD statistical databases.

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South Asian Newspapers

Provides online access to a select group of South Asian newspapers from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Sports Business Research Network

Locate statistical market research data for 63 sports, 85 product categories, plus full-text articles and reports in more than 10 leading trade publications covering U.S. and international sports marketing and sporting goods business.

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Standard and Poor's Net Advantage

Includes Standard & Poor's Bond Guide, Corporation Records, Dividend Record, Earnings Guide, Industry Surveys, Mutual Fund Reports, The Outlook, Standard & Poor's Register, Stock Guide, and Standard & Poor's Stock Reports.

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Statistical Insight

Indexes and abstracts statistical sources from government and nongovernment agencies. Some graphs are available.

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Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts

Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts (SWA) is an international abstracting service designed to meet the information needs of those working, teaching, studying or researching into any of the main areas of women's studies. 

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The Sunday Times, 1822-2006

Full-text archive of the London Sunday Times from its first issue in 1822 until 2006. 

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Testaments to the Holocaust

Documents and rare printed materials from the Wiener Library, London, this collection offers fully searchable personal accounts of life in Nazi Germany, along with photographs, propaganda materials such as school text books, limited circulation publications and rare serials, detailing the domestic policies of Nazi Germany, and Jewish life in Germany.

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Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive

A rich research and teaching tool for students and scholars allowing them to trace the views of influential opinion makers, the response of their contemporaries, the controversies and debates of the day.

 

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Times of London Archive (1785-2006)

Historical archive of The London Times from 1785-2006.

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Torrossa

Torrossa includes the content of Casalini's Editoria Italiana Online, Edición Española Online, EIO-Fabrizio Serra E-Journal, Franco Angeli Riviste E-journal, and Biblioteca Italiana Zanichelli collections.

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TrueFlix

TrueFlix is an online resource that helps students hone literacy skills, build knowledge of subject-area content, and cultivate 21st Century skills through the inquiry process.  

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TumbleBookCloud

TumbleBookCloud is a collection of videos and chapter books in categories which include: Ebooks, Read-Alongs, Graphic Novels, Videos (from National Geographic), and Audio Books suitable for middle school and high school grades.

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TumbleBookCloud Junior

TumbleBookCloud junior is a collection of videos and chapter books in categories which include: Ebooks, Read-Alongs, Graphic Novels, Videos and Audio Books suitable for elementary grades.

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TumbleBooks

Animated, talking picture books. Story books, puzzles and games, audiobooks, and books in other languages are all offered through the NYPL site.

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New York Online Virtual Electronic Library

Twayne's Authors Series

Contains the full text of frequently-used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors.  *Twayne's Authors Series  is now available via the Gale Virtual Reference Library eBook platform.

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U.S. History in Context

Variety of historical data from primary sources and reference documents. Also includes photographs, illustrations, and maps.

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Ulrich's Periodicals Directory

Directory of international magazines, journals, annuals, irregular publications, and newspapers.

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United Nations Official Documents System (ODS)

ODS covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Older UN documents are, however, added to the system on a daily basis. ODS also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards. The system does not contain press releases, UN sales publications, the United Nations Treaty Series or information brochures issued by the Department of Public Information.

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United Nations Treaty Series

Collection of over 34,000 treaties and international agreements registered or filed and recorded with and published by the Secretariat since 1946

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Universal Database of Russian National Bibliography

Bibliographic access to books, newspapers, journals, book criticism and reviews, the arts, sheet music, dissertations and maps.

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University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO)

University Press Scholarship Online offers full text of over 7,000 academic monographs in 21 subject areas covering the humanities, social sciences, medicine, and law from six leading university presses.

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USA Trade Online

Statistical database. Provides official exports and imports data on more than 17,000 commodities. Reveals what merchandise is being shipped, where it is being shipped, and how much it is worth. Includes quantity and value of exports and imports by 2-, 4-, 6-, and 10 digit Harmonized System codes plus the total quantity and value of exports and imports for more than 250 countries and each customs district.

Note: This database is not accessible on from all pcs, but from a stand alone pc at SIBL. A password is necessary to access-please ask an EIC staff member who can log you in.

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Value Line Research Center

On-line access to Value Line's leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks.

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The Vogue Archive

 The entire run of Vogue Magazine, in full text and full color, from 1892-present. 

 

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Wall Street Journal (1889-1995)

Searchable full-text and page images from the Wall Street Journal archive.

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Wall Street Journal, 1984-present

 Full text of the Wall Street Journal, 1984-present.

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The Wall Street Transcript

Full-text access to the weekly publication including interviews with analysts and WST profiles of selected industry sectors. Archive back to 1997.

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Washington Post (1877-1996)

Searchable full-text and page images from the Washington Post archive.

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Washington Post (1988-present)

Full-text articles from the Washington Post.

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WestlawNext Patron Access

WestlawNext Patron Access is an online legal research service designed especially for patron use in government law and public libraries.

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What Do I Read Next?

Suggests new fiction and nonfiction titles to read.

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Women's Wear Daily (WWD) Online

The electronic version of the fashion industry's daily news source.

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World Biographical Information System (WBIS) Online

Contains short biographical information on millions of people worldwide from the 8th century B.C. to the present.

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World Book Online Reference Center

Comprehensive access to encyclopedia articles, web links, periodical articles, videos, maps and more.

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World History in Context

From antiquity to the present day, search a broad collection of scholarly analysis and full-text periodicals, reference works and primary documents that cover the events, movements, and individuals that have shaped world history.

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World Newspaper Archive

World Newspaper Archive includes historical newspapers published in Africa, Europe, Latin America, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and other regions, this expansive resource can be cross-searched with America's Historical Newspapers for unprecedented coverage of the people, cultures, issues and events that have shaped world history.

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World Shakespeare Bibliography

Provides annotated entries for books, articles, theatrical productions, audiovisual materials, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare.

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WorldCat -- OCLC

Search for materials held in libraries around the world.

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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Indexes journals covering political science and related fields.

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Zephyr

Provides information about mergers and acquisitions, IPO's, joint ventures and private equity deals. 

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